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oozcitak

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About oozcitak

You can reach me at: oozcitak at gmail dot com

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    I don't have the coordinates of the excavation site but the ruins of the old baths are located at: 37°55'29"N 29° 7'29"E

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    It is safer to be a carbon chauvinist if you accept that ancient Mars was covered with oceans. A silicon-based microbe would be hard pressed to explain its distaste for water to it…

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    There are localization issues as well. Some place names in Turkey appear to be transferred over from legacy windows-1254 code page (e.g. Avcılar displayed as Avcýlar) Some have rep…

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    Your password can't be longer than 16 characters. ... we provide an inbox with ... rock solid account protection powered by your Microsoft account ... Those two do not chime that w…

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    I agree with your first paragraph but not with the Django example. User.objects.get(id=1) failing is exceptional because you are asking for an object with a specific and unique pro…

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    Great idea and beautiful execution. I just copy/pasted a few photos from Instagram to Facebook. I will definitely use this.

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    Comment #3513477

    There are languages with true alphabets, ie. there is a one-to-one relation with written letters and sounds. A good example is Turkish. Once you learn the sounds of the 29 letters …

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    Comment #3407176

    I believe there is a way around this. Google doesn't need to hide or remove pro-SOPA search results. Making them harder to find would be equally effective. Something like this perh…

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    Comment #3407158

    Is that impossible? Isn't it just a matter of running a root nameserver for the new internet?

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    Comment #3405877

    The page was edited a week ago. He appears to be COO before that: http://www.crunchbase.com/person/warren-adelman/diff/12/13

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    Comment #3399417

    It would be interesting to see how Google would handle the fig sign [1]. It represents the letter T in ASL, but it is considered quite a rude gesture (cunt in Turkish, for example)…

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    Comment #3395220

    Don't skip (as I did) steps 15-19. Otherwise, you'll wait a week before GoDaddy releases the domain to your new registrar. When you manually accept the transfer as described in the…

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    Comment #3313965

    But what happens if one of those sites lose their user database? Your other accounts would be compromised and you would have to change your passwords in every site you registered w…

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    Then WM_DESTROY should have been called NM_DESTROY, since it is clearly a notification message not a command. The user is not wholly innocent here, but the Windows API team should …

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    Change your work environment if you can. I lately started working one or two days a week at a friend's office. It worked wonders for me. I have a lot less distractions this way. Fi…

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    > How does anyone possibly allow a data dump to come anywhere near somewhere Google could index it? Let me just put this sql dump in the web root for a couple hours to copy over to…

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    Same happened in Turkey this month (#22agustos). The Anon DDoS was portayed as a failure in Turkish media, and the government took credit for successfully fighting off the "cyber-a…

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    Comment #2556505

    There are only a handful of browsers that doesn't support javascript today [1]. There also users consciously disabling scripting on their modern browsers but they don't add up to a…

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    Comment #2540746

    Did you try setting load-users=false under [UserManager] in /etc/lightdm.conf?

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    Comment #2522354

    In my opinion, personal blogs are a bigger problem. Even wordpress.com does not sanitize pictures. I believe many bloggers are unaware of that.

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    If you can enable 3D acceleration in virtual box, installing virtualbox-ose-guest-x11 enables Unity [1]. [1]: http://www.theopensourcerer.com/2011/04/21/ubuntu-natty-in-v...